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The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting sanctions have caused energy prices to soar. Governments seeking to alleviate the negative impacts of price increases on households have introduced energy subsidies and VAT reductions for electricity, gas and fuel. While such policies may be needed to protect those most in need, subsidising energy use is a short-term solution – it is a temporary, partial compensation that does not always reach those who are hardest hit. Added to this, subsidising fossil fuel energy use conflicts with the EU's aims to limit carbon emissions and maintains its energy dependency on third countries, such as Russia.
We are 100 days on from the invasion by Russia of Ukraine on 24 February, when peace in Europe was shattered. As the human tragedy began to unfold and with more than 6.8 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, escaping their country since the start of the war, European citizens have been watching developments with increasing concern.
Capturing this critical moment, Eurofound carried out a survey in April 2022 asking over 40,000 people living in Europe their views on a range of issues, including the war in Ukraine.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns. Recently, the policy debate surrounding these concerns has become more prominent and has increasingly focused on AI. This report maps relevant European and national policy and regulatory initiatives. It explores the positions and views of social partners in the policy debate on the implications of technological change for work and employment.
This publication consists of individual country reports on working life during 2021 for 28 countries – the 27 EU Member States and Norway. The country reports summarise evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on working life based on national research and survey results during 2021. They outline the policy responses of governments and social partners in their efforts to cushion the socioeconomic effects and include a focus on policy areas related to adapting to the pandemic and the return to work.
Today is Europe Day, and one hundred young people from Ireland and Ukraine will be marking the event at Eurofound, in peaceful south Dublin. Europe Day has traditionally been seen as a celebration of peace and unity in Europe, but, unfortunately, it must be marked differently this year. Europe Day 2022 must rather reaffirm the values of Europe: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law and human rights. These values are now being tested daily and must be rigorously defended for the future of Europe and the future of our young people.
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to be a defining force in the lives and work of Europeans for a second year in 2021, and Eurofound continued its work of examining and recording the many and diverse impacts across the EU Member States. Living and working in Europe 2021 provides a snapshot of the changes to employment, work and living conditions in Europe, as gathered by Eurofound's research activities in 2021.
The European Pillar of Social Rights states that 'everyone has the right to affordable long-term care services of good quality, in particular home-care and community-based services'. Taking a step to make this principle a reality, the European Commission is currently preparing a European Care Strategy, expected in September 2022. Good access to care is crucial for the quality of life of people with care needs as well as the well-being of informal carers who care for family or friends. An ageing population translates into intensifying demand for long-term care (LTC). Meeting this demand calls for a future-oriented strategy, one that should identify current trends and seek to improve them. Here we present four policy options that such a strategy should include.
Resumed EU Semester calls for better involvement of the social partners in implementing recovery and resilience plans
With the arrival of the month of May, the 2022 European Semester Spring Package is anticipated soon. After a transformative year in 2021, which saw the launch of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) under NextGenerationEU, the European Semester cycle has resumed its role as the reference framework for EU economic and employment policy coordination. The RRF, underpinned by the national recovery and resilience plans (RRPs), is the engine driving the investment and reforms needed to successfully transition to a greener and more digital society. Involving the social partners in this process can help put us on the right path.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shocked the world and the international community. Cities being destroyed, civilians wounded, innocent lives lost, refugees fleeing to other countries, and economic sanctions have become everyday news as this unprovoked and unlawful war unfolds.
Whether it is couch surfing, baby-sitting, pizza delivery or getting Ikea furniture assembled by somebody who can do it better, platforms can mediate all kinds of voluntary or professional services.
Platform work is at the heart of the 'sharing economy'. But while this may sound like a new form of digital solidarity, recent focus on these platforms has fallen on the precarious social conditions of its micro-tasked workers: sham self-employment, high levels of income insecurity, a lack of adequate equipment for work, no access to social insurance and poor facilities. In an attempt to avoid these pitfalls, platform workers have started to establish cooperatives that are helping to ensure the sharing economy is also a caring economy.
European Restructuring Monitor
The European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) has reported on the employment impact of large-scale business restructuring since 2002. This publication series include the ERM reports, as well as blogs, articles and working papers on restructuring-related events in the EU27 and Norway.
European Working Conditions Telephone Survey 2021
Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. This series consists of findings from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021, an extraordinary edition conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was first carried out in 1990.
Developments in working life, industrial relations and working conditions in the EU
This publication series gathers all overview reports on developments in working life, annual reviews in industrial relations and working conditions produced by Eurofound on the basis of national contributions from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents (NEC). Since 1997, these reports have provided overviews of the latest developments in industrial relations and working conditions across the EU and Norway. The series may include recent ad hoc articles written by members of the NEC.
Eurofound's work on COVID-19 examines the far-reaching socioeconomic implications of the pandemic across Europe as they continue to impact living and working conditions. A key element of the research is the e-survey, launched in April 2020, with five rounds completed at different stages during 2020, 2021 and 2022. This is complemented by the inclusion of research into the ongoing effects of the pandemic in much of Eurofound's other areas of work.
Sectoral social dialogue
Eurofound's representativeness studies are designed to allow the European Commission to identify the 'management and labour' whom it must consult under article 154 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This series consists of studies of the representativeness of employer and worker organisations in various sectors.
Minimum wages in the EU
This series reports on developments in minimum wage rates across the EU, including how they are set and how they have developed over time in nominal and real terms. The series explores where there are statutory minimum wages or collectively agreed minimum wages in the Member States, as well as minimum wage coverage rates by gender.
European Working Conditions Surveys
The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) launched in 1990 and is carried out every five years, with the latest edition in 2015. It provides an overview of trends in working conditions and quality of employment for the last 30 years. It covers issues such as employment status, working time duration and organisation, work organisation, learning and training, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work–life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, work and health, and most recently also the future of work.
Challenges and prospects in the EU
Eurofound's Flagship report series 'Challenges and prospects in the EU' comprise research reports that contain the key results of multiannual research activities and incorporate findings from different related research projects. Flagship reports are the major output of each of Eurofound's strategic areas of intervention and have as their objective to contribute to current policy debates.
European Company Survey 2019
Eurofound's European Company Survey (ECS) maps and analyses company policies and practices which can have an impact on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as the development of social dialogue in companies. This series consists of outputs from the ECS 2019, the fourth edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2004–2005 as the European Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance.
National social partners and policymaking
This series reports on and updates latest information on the involvement of national social partners in policymaking. The series analyses the involvement of national social partners in the implementation of policy reforms within the framework of social dialogue practices, including their involvement in elaborating the National Reform Programmes (NRPs).
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Impact of climate change and climate policies on living conditions, working conditions, employment and social dialogue: A conceptual frameworkForthcoming
This paper provides an analytical summary of state of the art academic and policy literature on the impact of climate change and policies to manage transitions to a carbon neutral economy on employment, working conditions, social dialogue and living conditions. It maps the key empirical findings around the impact of climate change and the green transitions on jobs, sectors, regions and countries in Europe, identifying the opportunities and risks that climate change policies bring to European labour markets.
As part of its response to Russia's war on Ukraine, the EU swiftly activated its Temporary Protection Directive for those fleeing the conflict in Ukraine – enabling displaced persons to settle in the EU and have access to the labour market and basic public services. This policy brief highlights the main barriers encountered by these refugees (over 5 million people to date) when seeking a job and provides suggestions on how to facilitate their integration.
The future of telework and hybrid workForthcoming
With the expansion of telework and different forms of hybrid work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important for policymakers to consider both the opportunities and the negative consequences that may result. This report will explore potential scenarios for such work. In doing so, it will identify trends and drivers, and predict how they might interact to create particular outcomes and how they are likely to affect workers and businesses. Policy pointers will outline what could be done to facilitate desirable outcomes and to avoid undesirable ones.
Living and working in Europe 2022Forthcoming
Living and working in Europe, Eurofound's 2022 yearbook, provides a snapshot of the latest developments in the work and lives of Europeans as explored in the Agency's research activities over the course of 2022. Eurofound's research on working and living conditions in Europe provides a bedrock of evidence for input into social policymaking and achieving the Agency's vision 'to be Europe's leading knowledge source for better life and work'.
Hybrid work in Europe: Concept and practiceForthcoming
The term 'hybrid work' became popular due to the upsurge of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic. The term has been increasingly used to refer to situations in which (teleworkable) work is performed both from the usual place of work (normally the employer's premises) and from home (as experienced during the pandemic) or other locations. However, the concept of hybrid work is still blurry, and various meanings are in use. This topical update brings clarity to this concept by exploring available information from recent literature and the Network of Eurofound Correspondents.
Housing affordability is a matter of great concern across the EU. Poor housing affordability leads to housing evictions, housing insecurity, problematic housing costs and housing inadequacy. These problems negatively affect health and well-being, create unequal living conditions and opportunities, and come with healthcare costs, reduced productivity and environmental damage. Private market tenants face particularly large increases in the cost of housing.
Minimum wages in 2023: Annual reviewForthcoming
Eurofound's annual review of minimum wages reports on the development of statutory and collectively agreed minimum wages across the EU and the processes through which they were set. The focus of this year's report is on the impact of high inflation on the setting of minimum wage rates. In addition, new figures on the net value of minimum wages are presented, along with the latest policy-relevant research in the EU Member States and Norway.
Intergenerational differences over timeForthcoming
Building on previous work by Eurofound, this report will investigate intergenerational dynamics over time. During the 2008 double-dip recession, worrying intergenerational divides appeared in many Member States, and while some of the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is universal, early data suggests disparities across demographic cohorts. Eurofound will examine how different age groups may have been affected in terms of their health, labour market participation, quality of life and financial needs, both in the short term and in the long term.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an extraordinary level of provision of social services across the EU. Healthcare and care providers carried much of the burden and, together with essential services, played a crucial role in getting citizens through the crisis. This report explores how public services adapted to the new reality and what role was played by the digital transformation of services. The aim is to contribute to the documentation and analysis of changes in funding, delivery and use of healthcare and social services during the pandemic.
Impact of the transition to a carbon neutral economy on employment and its effect on overall job qualityForthcoming
Are the policies required to meet the commitments outlined under the EU's plan for a green transition, the Fit-for-55 package, and the associated budgetary commitments – the Green New Deal – likely to lead to positive or negative employment outcomes by 2030? What types of jobs will be created or destroyed? Will shifts in employment be skewed towards the bottom, middle or top of the job–wage distribution? This report aims to provide answers to these questions, using macro-modelled estimates of the likely impacts of these policies on the structure of employment.


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But my outsider status is a privilege–I could partake of the slain bird (yes, I'm judging) and cough up the small fortune to fly home to Seattle–and that we is a lie. It doesn't cover my behind much less the choppy waterfront. That presumptive we excludes folks whose holidays evince neither Hollywood's disarming dysfunction nor the heartwarming diabetes of the black cinematic tradition. Not to mention the rent remains too damn high and just getting by too damn prevalent. But there is a we that works. A we that will order our steps nowhere near Wal-Mart this Thursday or any other day of the week (consider sponsoring a striker). A we that raises ruckus about public housing conditions in the immediate wake of Superstorm Sandy and long after. A we that can keep someone from falling. Better yet, a we that with work finds us all on our feet. A we like my family, bound not exclusively by blood but intentional, inclusive and beloved community. Thursday I'll miss the comforting grip of their hands during the marathon that is Thanksgiving grace but if anything they taught me there are always hands that need holding and it is all of our charges to find them. When I think about that we. I give thanks. I also get all up in my digital crates.
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Ice Cream Shop Honors Golden Girls
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Late Golden Girls stars Rue McClanahan and Bea Arthur are being honored... with ice cream!
New York's famous Big Gay Ice Cream Shop is opening up a new location in the West Village, and adding another Golden Girls-inspired item to the menu. (Arthur was already a fixture at the original.)
Which TV shows should reunite?
So what exactly are the treats made of?
The Rue McClanahan ice cream sandwich consists of bourbon-flavored ice cream between pecan praline cookies, while the Bea Arthur is vanilla ice cream with dulce de leche and crushed vanilla wafers. Yum!
What other TV stars deserve their own desserts?
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Today's News: Our Take - The Walking Dead: Did Rick Hand Over Michonne to The Governor? Who Died?
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead. Read at your own risk!]
The Walking Dead axed yet another character this week, bringing the Season 3 death toll to new heights. But who fell victim in Sunday's episode was somewhat surprising - especially considering Rick (Andrew Lincoln) seemed ready to turn Michonne (Danai Gurira) over to The Governor (David Morissey).
With the deadline for the peace treaty approaching, Rick began to waver about whether he should turn Michonne over to The Governor and even enlisted Merle (Michael Rooker) to do his dirty work for him. Ultimately, Rick decides against it, but Merle had already put his plan into action, leading Michonne away from the group and knocking her out cold before forcing her to walk back to Woodbury.
The Walking Dead: Who's going to die before Season 3 ends?
Eventually, Michonne got under Merle's skin, telling him this is his chance for redemption. He finally untied Michonne and told her to head back to the prison and prepare for the onslaught. Merle, however, set his sights on killing The Governor. He led a horde of walkers to the meeting place and picked off The Governor's men. Unfortunately, once The Governor discovered Merle, he bit off two of his fingers before shooting him. Worse, The Governor didn't shoot him in the head, but instead left him to turn into a walker, which forced a tearful Daryl (Norman Reedus) to put his own brother down. Buh-Bye Merle.
But there was a bright spot during the episode: Glenn (Steve Yeun) asked Hershel (Scott Wilson) if he could marry Maggie (Lauren Cohan). But if horror genre tradition holds, this now makes us worry that Glenn will find his ultimate happiness only to die shortly thereafter. Still, his quiet proposal was sweet, even if he used a ring he found on a walker.
The Walking Dead: What does this mean for Andrea?!
But the couple's bliss is short-lived as Rick then admits the truth about Michonne to the group. He goes on to say this is no longer a Ricktatorship. Everyone has helped the group survive, so everyone should get a say. It's no longer up to him whether they stay and fight or flee because he's not going to follow in the footsteps of The Governor.
Do you think the group will decide to leave the prison? Who else do you think will die in next week's season finale? Hit the comments!
The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9/8c on AMC.
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Looks like Buehrle's here to stay
Just days ago, it seemed Wednesday's start might be Mark Buehrle's final one as a member of the White Sox.
Now it looks as if Buehrle's 5-3 win over Tampa Bay will be his final start before signing a contract extension with the Sox.
Numerous published reports and a source close to the team said the Sox have been in negotiations with the left-hander on a new deal.
The fact that assistant general manager Rick Hahn caught a flight to Tampa — where Buehrle and his agent, Jeff Berry, are — on Wednesday also lends more credence to the rumors, since Hahn is the Sox's chief negotiator.
Though Buehrle and Berry both said there are no negotiations right now, an extension could be signed — and soon.
"I think everybody knows where my heart's at, where I want to stay, how badly I want to stay," Buehrle said. "So, if anybody has a question thinking I'm going to St. Louis after the season if I'm a free agent or if it gets to that point, they're wrong. I want to stay here and do everything I can to stay here."
WSCR-AM (670) reported that Buehrle is close to signing a four-year deal worth $50 million, with an option for a fifth year.
Buehrle would likely command more than a $12.5 million per-year contract on the market, but he has also repeatedly said he'd give the Sox a hometown discount.
"I guess I signed it," Buehrle joked. "They must have drugged me last night and I signed it. I don't remember putting my autograph on any piece of paper. Supposedly, I guess I'm here for another four years ...
"Until I get that tap on the shoulder that says you've been traded or we're going to sign you or willing to negotiate, it's all rumors to me."
The rumors began with a report in Wednesday's Chicago Sun-Times that Buehrle has been taken off the trade market and the two sides were negotiating on an extension.
That was news to Berry.
"There are no ongoing discussions," Berry said Wednesday afternoon. "I don't know what else to say other than there are no ongoing discussions. Maybe the White Sox are trying to gain the interest of other teams."
Manager Ozzie Guillen was asked for his gut feeling on the future.
"I think he's going to sign. That's my hope, he's going to sign," Guillen said. "But there are so many things in the middle. So many hard things in the middle. Hopefully, we sign him before we get to Chicago (on Monday). That's everybody's hope. ...
"It's not what I hear, it's what I read. But the way both parties love each other, I think he will sign."
Guillen even said that if the deal doesn't happen before this seven-game road trip comes to an end Sunday, it might not happen at all.
"The more he waits, the more interesting it will be," Guillen said. "A lot of people like to have Buehrle, but if it doesn't happen today or before we get to Chicago, then he's got a great chance to (go)."
General manager Ken Williams declined to comment.
In the midst of all of this, Buehrle (5-4) had a game to pitch.
The left-hander allowed a run in the third when he hit Carlos Pena with the bases loaded, another in the fourth on an RBI fielder's choice squibber to first by Carl Crawford and another in the fifth on an sacrifice fly to center by Jonny Gomes.
The Sox bats, meanwhile, were held in check by Tampa Bay starter Andy Sonnanstine through six, but finally knocked him out in the seventh when three of their first four batters singled.
Alex Cintron's RBI single off ex-Sox Gary Glover (3-3) made it 3-2, and Andy Gonzalez's RBI single in the eighth tied it.
The Sox caught a break later that inning when the right side of the Devil Rays outfield lost Jim Thome's fly ball in the ceiling at Tropicana Field for a single. Paul Konerko made them pay with the game-winning two-run double off Shawn Camp.
Yet, the Sox first three-game winning streak since May 20-22 — also the last time they had won a series until now — was overshadowed by Buehrle talk.
"It's kind of funny seeing my name out there," said Buehrle, who went seven innings. "Someone said me and Paris Hilton's name have been in the paper the most the last week."
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Outside of the opinion polls and scientific journals, the public discourse about climate change is generally very low quality. Scientific understanding and even basic facts often fall far behind name calling and conspiracy theories. But, even by the rather low standards of the genre, a piece published at the blog of a free-market think tank was shocking—it compared a Penn State climate scientist to a convicted child molester who used to work for the university's athletics program. Those accusations were then echoed by the National Review.
The scientist in question, Michael Mann, demanded the piece be removed, and asked for a public apology. The National Review responded by threatening to use discovery to demand all of Mann's documents (which were already the subject of court cases) and proving that he was, in fact, a fraud. Now, months after those threats were exchanged, Mann's lawyers have actually filed the suit.
A misdirected focus
In many ways, the focus on Mann is a product of a very odd failure of logic. The basic outlines of anthropogenic climate change—the greenhouse effect, rising CO2 levels, a significant rise in global temperatures—are all so well understood they could basically be considered factual.
But somehow, many people who doubt that humanity has played a role in driving the climate have become obsessed with the potential that natural variations have caused the recent rise in temperatures. In some cases, that has led to bizarre accusations that scientists haven't attempted to consider or account for drivers of natural variations (despite the fact that they make significant appearances in the IPCC's attribution chapter, where the word "natural" appears over 100 times). In the more extreme cases, advocates make these natural variations sound almost magical, as they seem to act without leaving any discernable trace on the globe.
The desire to blame natural variations has also been expressed in a desire to show rising temperatures over the last century and a half are not in any way unusual. Although this sometimes includes irrelevant references to past conditions (boy, was the Triassic hot!), some of that more appropriately focuses on conditions within the current interglacial period. And that's where Michael Mann comes in. Mann's specialty is reconstructing the global climate of the recent past based on temperature proxies like tree rings and bore holes, which capture some noisy information about the local conditions in the past. Get enough of these with a sufficiently global distribution, and you can estimate the global temperature for centuries before we had accurate thermometers.
Back in the 1990s, Mann was one of the first to attempt to perform one of these global reconstructions, and the result became iconic: the hockey stick graph, which later graced the cover of an IPCC report. Although it got him a Nature paper at the time, it's caused him little but trouble since. A substantial portion of the people who are convinced scientists are just making up the whole climate change thing have decided that, if they can just discredit Mann's work, the entire field of study will come crashing down into a confused heap.
Mann's paper, as a first attempt at this sort of reconstruction, attracted some criticism on scientific grounds. But it also attracted no end of non-scientific vitriol because it was mistakenly considered to be so central to the entire argument about climate change. Eventually, it even became the subject of Congressional hearings where climate science as a field was accused of being sloppy with statistics and too insular to notice. But the report that accused climate scientists of helping each other through peer review turned out to have been heavily plagiarized (and, ironically, was pushed into publication by a friendly editor). The National Academies of Science analyzed how the field had progressed since Mann's publication, and found that multiple studies, using improved methods, had now replicated the hockey stick result.
It might be reasonable to expect that matters would end there.
Enduring animosity
But this is climate change, where reasonable expectations don't count for much. People remain unconvinced that recent temperature changes aren't anything usual, and they have continued to attack a paper that's closing in on being 20 years old. For his part, Mann has used a book, editorials, and public speaking opportunities to defend his work and climate science in general. And, in the middle of it all, history (in many ways) repeated itself.
When e-mails were stolen from a server in the University of East Anglia, Mann's correspondence with other scientists ended up being leaked to the public. And, just as with the hockey stick, various inquiries into the validity of his work (and that of others) were launched. But all of those inquiries came to roughly the same conclusions: the e-mails were being quoted out of context, and there was no evidence of improper science or any form of a conspiracy. Once again, matters should have probably ended there.
But they haven't. Reasoning that a small collection of private e-mails made Mann look bad, the Attorney General of Virginia sued to obtain everything he sent while he was at the University of Virginia, using unspecified allegations of fraud as an excuse. That suit was rejected, and a private think tank followed suit, only to have their attempt rejected as well.
The latest round of attacks, however, was prompted by events at Mann's current institution: Penn State. That institution's sports program was rocked by a sexual abuse scandal, and a subsequent inquiry concluded the administration turned a blind eye to ongoing abuse. If they'd do that for football, the reasoning apparently goes, they'd do the same thing for a star researcher who brings in lots of grant money.
That argument was laid out in the blog of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank. Its author makes a series of accusations against the institution and Mann himself, starting with the opening line: "Penn State has covered up wrongdoing by one of its employees to avoid bad publicity." Penn State's inquiry into Mann is called a "cover up and whitewash," and Mann is variously accused of "deception" and "engaging in data manipulation." But one sentence was considered so outrageous that it was later removed by the blog's editor: "Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky [a child molester] of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet."
Those lines were quoted approvingly by a blog post at the National Review
Mann asked for their removal and apology, and threatened to sue otherwise. In response, the CEI's took the opportunity to insult Mann further ("Professor Mann's political advocacy is no more reliable than his scientific research"). The editor of the National Review, in a column entitled "Get Lost," informed Mann that should he sue, all the e-mails that were subject to lawsuits in Virginia would be demanded during discovery. Despite that threat, the suit was filed earlier this week.
Libel and public figures
Mann faces a significant hurdle in pursuing this suit. It's very clear that he has become a public figure, which means the people he's suing need to have acted with malice when they made their statements. Typically, that's been interpreted as meaning the people who made the libelous statements knew they were wrong when they were making them, and went ahead anyway because they intended to inflict distress. Mann's lawyers argue that you don't make comparisons with a child molester unless you intend to inflict distress: "Unsatisfied with their lacerations of his professional reputation, defendants have also maliciously attacked Dr. Mann's personal reputation with the knowingly false comparison to a child molester."
But the more interesting aspect of the suit comes in the factual nature of claims that Mann's work is fraudulent. The CEI and National Review may believe these claims have merit, but Mann's lawyers argue there's no excuse for believing that at this point: "In response to these accusations, academic institutions and governmental entities alike, including the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation, have conducted investigations into Dr. Mann's work, and found the allegations of academic fraud to be baseless. Every such investigation—and every replication of Dr. Mann's work—has concluded that Dr. Mann's research and conclusions were properly conducted and fairly presented."
It's hard to know what to make of this argument, other than it will be fascinating if this case makes it to court. It's hard to imagine someone could believe every single investigation of Mann's work has been superficial or a whitewash; every scientific replication evidence of either luck or a conspiracy. But it's also clear (almost certainly for cultural reasons) the authors of these pieces have convinced themselves that all of this must be true. There's less here about malice towards Mann, and more about preventing a carefully constructed alternate reality from collapsing.
The authors should be happy they're not based in Australia. That country's government agencies include the Australian Communications and Media Authority and it recently issued a ruling responding to some factually challenged radio broadcasts on climate change. The Authority ordered the host and his staff to undergo training on factual accuracy, and the station needs to track its fact-checking process for six weeks afterwards.
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Shiites lash out after Pakistan bombing kills 81
- Some 160 people were wounded
- Deadliest incident since bombings targeting Shiites in the same city killed 86 people earlier this year
- The bomb was hidden in a water tank and towed into the market by a tractor
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Members of the Pakistani Shiite Hazara community Sunday threatened to hold widespread protests if the government did not arrest within 48 hours the people responsible for a massive bombing that killed 81 people in a southwestern city.
Saturday's blast at a produce market in Quetta underlined the precarious situation for Shiites living in a majority Sunni country where many extremist groups don't consider them real Muslims. Some 160 people were also wounded in the blast.
Most of the dead and wounded were Hazaras, an ethnic group that migrated from Afghanistan over a century ago. Shiite Muslims, including Hazaras, have often been targeted by Sunni extremists in Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital, as well as in the southern city of Karachi and northwestern Pakistan.
The vice chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, a political group representing Hazaras, said Sunday that the party was giving the government 48 hours to find those responsible for the attack and arrest them.
"Otherwise, the Hazara community will start a protest in Pakistan and the world over," said Azizullah Hazara.
Graves had been dug but at least 60 of the dead from the Saturday evening blast still hadn't been buried Sunday evening. Religious and community leaders were set to meet Monday morning to decide whether to bury their dead or to protest the bombing by refusing to bury the bodies as they did after a similar attack in January.
After 86 people died in that bombing, which hit a billiards hall, prompting Shiites to camp out in the street for four days alongside the coffins of their loved ones. Eventually the country's prime minister ordered a shake-up in the regional administration, putting the local governor in charge of the whole province.
"So far, we are not going home. We are not burying the dead," said Dawood Agha, a Shiite leader in Quetta.
The violence touched a chord among Pakistanis elsewhere in the country, with small-scale protests being held in Islamabad, Karachi and at least 12 other cities.
At the Islamabad rally, hundreds of Shiites and various civil rights groups demanded the government crackdown on the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"We all know it is LeJ," said Hasan Raza, a Shiite activist. "We want the government to act now and take action against the terrorist group."
The large-scale attack comes as the government, headed by the Pakistan People's Party, is preparing for elections this spring, and it adds to the widespread perception that the government has done little to improve security or the economy during its five-year tenure.
Whether that anger will translate into widespread opposition to the PPP come election time remains to be seen. Baluchistan, the largest but most sparsely populated province, is a long way from places like Punjab and Sindh provinces where most of voters live. The protests calling for government action have generally been small scale so far and limited to mostly liberal activists.
At the blast site, members of the Hazara community helped authorities dig through rubble to find the dead or survivors. Most of their efforts were focused on a two-story building that was completely destroyed. More than 20 shops nearby were also demolished.
Clothing and shoes were scattered through the concrete rubble, broken steel bars and shattered wooden window frames littering the streets.
One of those helping, 40-year-old Qurban Ali, was instructing young people to be patient and careful while removing the rubble, lest they hurt themselves or survivors still buried in the debris. His cousin Abbas was still missing after the blast.
"Not one month or week passes here without the killing of a member of the Hazara community," he said. "Why is the government — both central and provincial — so lethargic in protecting Shiites?"
Near the rubble, a group of more than 50 women were wailing and beating their heads in mourning.
On a nearby road Hazara youth burned tires and chanted for the arrests of the killers. A number of Shiite groups also staged a sit-in and were demanding the immediate removal of the chief secretary of Baluchistan and the top police official, said Rahim Jaffery, who heads a Shiite organization called the Council for the Protection of Mourning.
"We are demanding the city (protection) be handed over to the army so that the killing of Hazara Shiites can be stopped," he said.
After the attack in January, the prime minister put Governor Zulfiqar Magsi directly in charge of the region — a move that many Shiites thought would help protect their community. But he has made comments that reveal frustration at the job, saying the blast was the result of a failure of the provincial security and intelligence agencies.
"Officials and personnel of these institutions are scared (of the terrorists). Therefore they don't take action against them," he said in comments that were broadcast on local television.
Pakistan's intelligence agencies helped nurture Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the 1980s and 1990s to counter a perceived threat from neighboring Iran, which is mostly Shiite. Pakistan banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in 2001, but the group continues to operate fairly freely in their war against Shiites.
According to Human Rights Watch, more than 400 Shiites were killed in 2012 in targeted attacks across the country, the worse year on record for anti-Shiite violence. The human rights group said more than 125 were killed in Baluchistan province. Most of them belonged to the Hazara community. With two attacks in two months in Baluchistan, that number has already been eclipsed.
Human rights groups have accused the government of not doing enough to protect Shiites.
Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana in Islamabad contributed to this report.


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So for a long time, I've wanted to create on this site another channel for reviews of forthcoming books. And starting next week, you'll be able to read some full reviews — just like the others on this site — of books that will appear in the next few months.
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Since its launch in late 2007, One-Minute Book Reviews has kept adding new features to keep the site fresh, including original reading group guides (saved in the Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides category at right) and the Delete Key Awards for the year's worst writing in books, announced annually on March 15. To avoid missing any of these, please bookmark this site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
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Mitt Romney backtracked after saying he would not pursue abortion legislation during an interview he gave on Tuesday to the "Des Moines Register." Critics point to his comment as further proof he's embracing a centrist position to appeal to voters, especially women.
A campaign spokeswoman released a response to the "National Review" soon after, telling them, "Governor Romney would, of course, support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life." On Wednesday, Romney told reporters "I'm a pro-life candidate, and I'll be a pro-life president." He went on to say he would immediately eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.
Keeping Them Honest, his stance on the issue has fluctuated throughout his political career, long before his run for president. Anderson Cooper looks at his previous views on abortion starting with a statement he made in 1994 when running for office in Mass. against Sen. Ted Kennedy. "I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country," said Romney.
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Mitt Romney said everything the Tea Party wanted to hear to win the Republican nomination. Now he is saying everything the Independents want to hear by changing his position on many issues. Is he now moving from the right to the center out of desperation ?. Does he really believe he can have it both ways ?.
Makes me wonder and not sure if I even want to vote this election.
Romney as President is a frightening proposition. He says one thing publicly, another privately. Face it, these same o fat cat republican men would have their daughters on an international flight if abortion became illegal in America. I am a Catholic woman who believes I have no right to tell any woman she must bear a child. Let Planned Parenthood educate rather than spend resources defending Roe v Wade.
why is Romney not afforded the same luxury of "evolving" we heard about when Obama changed his position on same sex marriage?
Abortion will always be available to women who have the means to call their doctor privately and pay for it irregardless of what the government says. PP is for women who really don't have the means to seek an abortion. They are not in a financial position to be supporting children. PP can help them also with contraception. Romney wants to remove funding for PP, but then these women will be forced to go on Welfare and we will see a huge # of children dependent on government funding, (unless, Romney wants them to rot in the street which I wouldn't put passed him).
planned parenthood saves womens lives. so many women dont have access to care. prevention is better than abortion, and the lives that are saved, from the ability to have access to care is countless. How many motherless children do we want in foster care? how many pregnant poor women do we need on welfare? Prevention is the stalwart of Planned Parenthood
It is ironic that a country that embraces and promotes freedom and diversity has a Presidential nominee that would deny women a choice...and then lie about it! He is the consummate salesman...he will say anything to close the deal! Never underestimate the power of independent women...
No suprise. He has changed opinions, views, stance on and about everything. How he can be trusted is beyond any sane comprehension.
I agree with you 100% sir. The underlying trait that you have to have as President is whether you are truthful. How can you trust someone who changes positions on EVERYTHING . There is one area where he has not changed his position, however, and that is releasing his last few years of taxes. This is the REAL Romney-secretive and manipulative.
i agree wholeheartedly that the lack of veracity this candidate displays, and his" trust me" attitude is quite frightening. and as james said, correctly so, if men did get pregnant it would indeed be an amendment by now! any woman who votes for the agenda of this ticket, is certainly akin to a holocaust victim that votes for hitler
I wish someone would interview a rep from planned Parenthood to learn of the many things they do. They are not just an abortion clinic. If they shut down P P, there will be more abortions because many people rely on P P for contraception. Also if abortion is abolished, there will be many back alley hacks and incompetinent people trying to do abortions. Even women with wire coat hangers trying to do the deed.. I know this because I remember it from my younger days. If a woman wants an abortion, she will get one. It is legal. Leave it alone. Because it seems to be mostly men who are opposed to abortion, all they have to do is just wear a condom. Problem solved.
As the old saying goes "If men could get pregnant the right to an abortion would be the 11th commandment"
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Space harpoons could be the best way to defend astronauts and cosmic travellers from the clumps of junk hovering in near-Earth orbit.
Space junk is increasingly getting in the way of safe space travel—the International Space Station is always having to maneuvre itself to avoid hitting errant lumps of metal flying around the Earth at hundreds of meters per second, and according to the European Space Agency (ESA), there are currently 22,000 objects bigger than a coffee cup currently in orbit despite only 1,100 of those being working satellites.
The BBC reports on a project from space company Astrium UK to tackle this problem using harpoons. These would be fired from dedicated "chaser satellites" that would patrol orbits around the Earth, with handlers on the ground assessing targets over video feeds. When they find a target, the chaser fires and latches onto the rogue satellite—then a propulsion unit attached to the cable fires its thruster, dragging the rogue object down towards a fiery disintegration in the atmosphere.
Harpoons fired from these satellites would be quite small, only 30cm long, because anything too big runs the risk of knocking away a target or even causing it to disintegrate. It has to pierce the aluminium skin of the target, and then latch on with a barb—just like a normal harpoon—but be careful not to create several even smaller pieces of debris from one large piece by, for example, causing an explosion, which would rather defeat the purpose of the exercise.
There's currently something of a boom in organizations planning ways to tackle space junk, which could be said to date to the high-profile and unprecedented collision between two communications satellites in 2009. The ESA has even launched a dedicated Clean Space Initiative to try and find new and innovative ways of preventing a catastrophic buildup of space junk that could make the human use of space impossible.
This is, unsurprisingly, due to the speeds and sizes of these objects—many of them travel in orbit at similar speeds as fast as bullets, and are of a similar size. The more collisions there are, the smaller and more numerous the individual items that need tracking—it's not an easy job, so prevention is definitely the best way to approach the problem. Nasa estimates that there are currently at least 500,000 objects between one and ten centimetres orbiting the Earth; there are more than 100 million objects up there that are smaller than one centimetre.
In February Wired.co.uk reported on one possible solution, the CleanSpaceOne—a satellite designed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology that can roam in orbit while grabbing and storing tiny pieces of space debris until, when full, it dives back into the atmosphere to burn up. Nasa has proposed zapping stuff with high-powered lasers as it flies past. Just this week Boeing filed a patent for sending up a satellite filled with heavy gases that, when sprayed on orbital debris, would slow them down enough to make them fall back into the atmosphere.
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In an old house in Paris
that was covered with vines
lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
— The opening lines of Madeline
Madeline. Story and Pictures by Ludwig Bemelmans. Viking, 48 pp., $7.99, paperback. Also available in other editions. Ages 2 & up.
By Janice Harayda
One of the most delightful characters in children's literature was born, figuratively speaking, in a saloon. Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962) may have gotten the idea for Madeline after a bicycle accident sent him to a French hospital, where a girl in the next room had just had her appendix out. But he wrote the first lines of his most famous book on the back of a menu at Pete's Tavern in New York: "In an old house in Paris / that was covered with vines …"
Those words set the tone for this brief narrative poem that uses rhyming couplets and a loose anapestic meter to tell the story a fearless girl who attends a convent school near the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and other French landmarks. Madeline is the smallest and bravest of the girls in the care of a nun called Miss (not Sister) Clavel: "To the tiger in the zoo / Madeline just said, 'Pooh-pooh.'" She makes such a fine adventure of having her appendix out – the central drama of the book – that by the last page her schoolmates are clamoring to have surgery, too.
Madeline was published in 1939 and is one the few picture books of its day that has never fallen from favor. But it has more going for it than nostalgia or its intergenerational appeal. The amusing line drawings are simple yet dynamic. Bemelmans suggests an entire world through his images of 12 girls who are always identically dressed, whether they wear broad-brimmed hats while visiting the Eiffel Tower or muffs while ice-skating near Montmartre. Like Helen Oxenbury's pictures for We're Going on a Bear Hunt, his illustrations alternate between color and black- and-white (plus a sunny yellow in Madeline). This technique helps to quicken the pace, so that the 48 pages of text hold the attention of preschoolers used to shorter books. And there's another reason why Madeline and its five sequels work so well, astutely suggested by Anna Quindlen in her introduction to Mad About Madeline: The Complete Tales (Viking, $35), which contains all the books in the series:
"For those of us who believe that children feel secure with structure, part of the enduring charm of the books must surely be that Madeline's confidence and fearlessness are set within a backdrop of utter safety," Quindlen writes. Miss Clavel is "concerned but competent." If Madeline's life is regimented, it has an order and predictability that many children long for at a time when the family dinner is becoming a cultural artifact. Madeline and her schoolmates all eat their meals, brush their teeth, and go to bed at the same time. A caged tiger may bare its teeth at the zoo. But as Quindlen rightly notes, "life is safe" in that "old house in Paris / that was covered with vines."
Best line: The first three, quoted at the top of this review.
Worst line: None. But some parents may prefer to skip two lines on the last page: "Good night, little girls! Thank the Lord you are well!"
Published: 1939 (first Simon & Schuster edition), 2000 (Viking paperback reprint).
Furthermore: A naturalized American citizen, Bemelmans was born in the Austrian Tyrol and moved to the U.S. as a teenager. Madeline www.madeline.com was a Caldecott Honor book, and its first sequel, Madeline's Rescue, won the Caldecott Medal. More often associated with O. Henry than with Bemelmans, Pete's Tavern still serves meals at the corner of 18th Street and Irving Place in Manhattan.
You may also want to read: Classic Picture Books Every Child Should Read #1, Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág, reviewed on this site on Jan. 5, 2007 https://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/05.
© 2007 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Taking America's pulse as election nears
PRESIDENT: The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for president.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
What another lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said of Milton's "Paradise Lost," can be said of this campaign: No one ever wished it longer.
Voters, having heard enough, might agree that it is splendid that in "Hamlet" Polonius gets stabbed. He deserved this because his speech to Laertes taught politicians how to speak bromides.
Tuesday night, as returns reveal whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney has the smaller gigantic number of Americans not wanting him to be president, notice other indexes of political change:
Wisconsin has voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections. Although George W. Bush lost there by just 0.2 and 0.4 percentages in 2000 and 2004, respectively, Obama won it by 13.9 points. If Romney wins Wisconsin, one reason will be native son Paul Ryan, but another will be the unsuccessful attempt by government employees' unions to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. His counterattack created a durable political infrastructure.
Pennsylvania, which has supported five consecutive Democratic candidates, has the fourth-highest percentage of its population over 65 (behind Florida, West Virginia and Maine). If Romney wins Pennsylvania, or even comes close (in 2008, Obama won by 10.3 points), this will indicate seniors' skepticism about Democrats' contention that Republicans offer the elderly only wheelchairs, and only for the purpose of rolling grandmothers off cliffs.
Without spending a dime, Democratic presidential candidates win 104 electoral votes from the first (California), third (New York) and fifth (Illinois) most populous states. Tuesday's Texas voting might suggest that, perhaps eight years hence, Hispanic voters could turn the second-most populous state purple, en route to blue.
Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to combat California's fiscal implosion caused by public employees' unions is -- surprise! -- to raise taxes. Proposition 30 would increase sales and income taxes. If voters reject this, and pass Proposition 32 to limit unions' powers to fund political activities by siphoning money from workers' paychecks, Californians will have a glimmer of hope for regime change. Meanwhile, if Michiganders pass Proposal 2, they will put their state on California's downward trajectory. This union-backed measure would buttress unions' strength by making collective bargaining by public employees a constitutional right, and by making right-to-work laws unconstitutional.
Six states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriage, but Maryland could become the first to do so by referendum. Interestingly, Maryland has the highest percentage of African-Americans (31 percent) of any state outside the Deep South, and social conservatism disposes many African-Americans against redefining marriage. In 2010, when 61 percent of North Carolinians voted against same-sex marriage, Hertford County, which is 60 percent African-American, voted 70 percent against. If Maryland endorses gay marriage, this will call into question the necessity, and hence the wisdom, of a litigation strategy rather than a democratic persuasion strategy for advancing gay rights. The abortion debate became embittered when the Supreme Court's judicial fiat with Roe v. Wade (1973) truncated democratic deliberations that in the previous five years had liberalized abortion laws in 16 states with 41 percent of the nation's population.
Prohibition watch: Colorado, Oregon and Washington, which are among the 17 states and the District of Columbia that have legalized medical marijuana, are voting on legalization for recreational use.
Finally, when Maine used to elect members of Congress in September, the saying was, "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." Then in 1936, when President Franklin Roosevelt beat Alf Landon in 46 of 48 states, the joke was, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Tuesday evening the saying could be "As Maine's Second Congressional District goes, so goes the presidency." Forty-eight states allocate all their electoral votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote. Nebraska and Maine, however, award two votes to the statewide winner, but one to whomever carries each congressional district. Obama will win Maine's popular vote, but Romney might win the Second District. Conceivably, one electoral vote could be the difference between 270-268 and 269-269 with the House of Representatives picking the president.
So, there. Enjoy Tuesday evening, after voting with Woody Allen's wisdom in mind: "One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
George Will's email address is email@example.com.


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Comparing the progress of China with India always amazes me. About same number of people but different results. Chinese raise their kids to be entrepreneurs while Indian hindus as t hugs. Just a cultural difference I suppose. Different DNA.
China 10% GDP...... India 2%
China 38 Gold medals.... India 0 (2012 olympics)
I drink his love juice then I swallow
I like big Indian DI CK up my as.s. DEEP
China's generals believe in hitting as fast and as hard as possible, a style of warfare they demonstrated in their 1987 blitzkrieg against India. The aim is to wage "battles with swift outcome" (su jue zhan). This laser focus has been a hallmark of the war with India in 1962 and 1987 during which they annihilated Indian Army and destroyed it and captured 10% of India up north in Aksai Chin region.
I am Schezuan.
I am Hindu and happy and healthy from India.
I love India and praise Modi..
Bless India and Modi.
I worship Shiva Long live Modi!
I kiss modi's big hairy ba lls. .sweet and sweaty
On October 20, 1962 at 5:14 am, Chinese Army overwhelmed the attacking Indian forces in Arunachal Pradesh. Simultaneously, the Chinese cut the Indian communication lines, preventing the Indians from making contact with their headquarters. At about 6:30 am, the Chinese infantry launched an attack from the rear and forced the Indians to leave their trenches and killed or captured most of them.
Simultaneously, on October 21, 1962 at 4:30 am the Chinese troops, in a blitzkrieg, overwhelmed the Indians in a series of flanking manoeuvres south of the McMahon Line and prompted their withdal from Namka Chu. Fearful of continued losses, Indian troops escaped into Bhutan and Tibet. Chinese forces pursued and captured thousands of Indian soldiers. Chinese forces now held all of the territory that was under dispute at the time of the Thag La confrontation, but they continued to advance into the rest of NEFA.
On 22 October 1987, at 12:15 am, Indian Army surrendered to Chinese Liberation Army. About 125,000 Indian soldiers were captured. This was a victory that propelled China into global leadership and a defeat for India that sealed its fate as a curmedgeon in world politics.
I just ate some boogers salty gooey moist boogers from India.
Breakfast of Champions
Blue Saffron eats my boogers
There have been 3 wars between China and India. Sino-Indian War of 1962, the Chola War in 1967, and the 1987 Sino-Indian War.
In all these three wars India was comprehensively defeated and the Indian Army surrendered. In two of these wars the Indian Army was commanded by hindu generals. The last war had a Sikh general. Needless to say they were all cowards and surrendered to Chinese.
On 22 October 1987 12:43 P.M. EST...I got fukked in my as.s by Blue Saffron. ..then we ate some Hindu boogers at a booger coffee shop.
To compare India and China one just has to look at the 2012 Olympic Medal Chart !!!
China = 38 Gold Medals
India = 0 !!!!!
Same # of population ... Just different results. India has absolutely no chance of competing with China in any respect. USA has realized this, convinced India of it and is using India as its b itch in that region instead to further its goals.
Hi. I am Beef Noodles.
I am Hindu now. I live in Bombay.
I love Modi
How shameless Hindus are. Chinese army has conquered Indian territory and put up their flags . Indians are such cowards and have no self respect that they wont fight the Chinese for their country. The hindu army is hiding in trenches scared. ROFL
I am the Boogers champion.
Ounces of boogers eaten:
Blue Saffron. ..45
Cow in a Bottle. ..23
Beef Noodles. ...88
Modi has arrived in China to surrender. Gutless. Shameless. Spineless. Coward. Baboon looking guy.
Mamas don't let your kids grow up to be like hindus. These cowards are hiding in trenches while Chinese conquer India in front of our eyes.
Why dont you hindus go fight the Chinese and take your land back. Don't you have any dignity or self respect?
India is beautiful and great.
India is my homeland.
I eat yellow boogers salty gooey moist boogers from India
I am Hindu. I love India.
Comparing the progress of China with India always amazes me. About same number of people but different results. Chinese raise their kids to be entrepreneurs while Indian hindus as t hugs. Just a cultural difference I suppose. Different DNA.
China 10% GDP...... India 2%
China 38 Gold medals.... India 0 (2012 olympics)
111,383 killed
11,047 wounded
11,696 missing
123,968 captured
131,544 ran away to Bhutan and still are hiding scared from Chinese.
In India 65.8% women and 54.7% men have anemia with highest prevalence in Assam and Jharkhand (69%) followed by Bihar (67.4%). Even the national capital New Delhi has a female anemic population of alarming 44.3%.
NDIA:::: Some Alarming Statistics: (Source: UNDP)
::: 1/3rd world's poor are in India. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $ 2 per month than even sub-Saharan Africa.
::::95% of India does not have toilets or plumbing
::: 828 million people or 75.6% of the Indian population is living below $2 a month. 42% of the population is living below the new international poverty line.
Booger contest..
BLUE SAFFRON 40 boogers eaten
Blue Saffron 56 boogers stolen
Blue Saffron 98 boogers destroyed
I drink warm toilet water LMFAO!
I just farted Wet
Smells like Blue troll breath. Lol
NDIA:::: Some Alarming Statistics: (Source: UNDP)
:::30% of raypes in India happen in bushes where women go to defecate and another 25% on rail tracks: SOURCE: Hallop Polls
::: 33% of the global poor are Indians. Sub-Saharan Africa considered the world's poorest region is better than India.
:::41.8% of the rural population in India survive with monthly per capita consumption expenditure of Rs447 ($7)on essential necessities like food, fuel, light and clothing.
::80% of hinddoous track to rail tracks to defecate in India